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Car Action World's Fastest RC Car Challenge!What car are you going to build to break the world speed record for RC cars?

Steve- I have a couple of questions: what might be the size of some of the track irregularities? and also is there a minimum or maximum distance it takes to gets up to speed? also does the car have to start from a roll or still? thanks, this is fun stuff

I'm just curious, does anyone know if this will be a single day or two day event. I won't be able to do much of high speed testing until I actually get to the event. Will we have time to do testing with the radar?

It'd be nice to get the last of the bugs worked out before going straight into the run.

Well I can do most of my testing before then, but I won't be able to most of the super high speed testing in my area. Best i could do is 80mph runs. Anything more than that, I won't have anywhere to go with the room and surface necessary. Only hope is Bremerton Raceway letting me use their track, but that's a long shot.

Hmm, well I sent an e-mail to them so we'll see. Dunno if they even check their e-mail...lol Hopefully they'll let me do the testing there. It's an old shutdown military base converted into a race track. The length is probably over a mile long since they flew every kind of plane there. And the surface is an absolute DREAM.

Hope you all are ready to loose. If I can gather the cash for the trip. I will be bringing a 109.2V rc car with a 28lb motor. My job is rebuilding large electric mining motors. I build this baby my self.

I'm not that rich, so putting alot of money into a an event with just a title at stake might not draw too many people into it. RCCA does gain from the event as they get a story and built up hype for it. Not only do they get a story, they will most likely do an article on each of the top performing cars, or the best enigneered ones. That is a lot of magazines sold. What would I gain from it, a ticket stub to Cali and a big credit card billl.

Just for sponsers sake, RCCA what is your current monthly circulation rate? 50,000 issues?

I'm not that rich, so putting alot of money into a an event with just a title at stake might not draw too many people into it. RCCA does gain from the event as they get a story and built up hype for it. Not only do they get a story, they will most likely do an article on each of the top performing cars, or the best enigneered ones. That is a lot of magazines sold. What would I gain from it, a ticket stub to Cali and a big credit card billl.

Just for sponsers sake, RCCA what is your current monthly circulation rate? 50,000 issues?

I doubt there will be a monetary prize, and if there is it wouldn't be near enough to even cover the cost of building a winning rig.

Besides, it costs RCCA a bunch of money too. Flying themselves and all their equipment out to cali in the summer isn't exactly the cheapest. Neither is paying to rent a track. But getting insurance to cover people running 100+ mph mini land rockets?!? yeah, not the cheapest thing for them to run either.

I think RCCA has its subscription base, and it will not drastically change just because on issue has these world speed record cars. Not many people would sign up for a whole year just for one issue. And the newsstands get what they get.

I think the turn out will be pretty high. When I talked to robinson racing about their gears, it sounded like there's been A LOT of people asking to get custom gears made.

For most custom cut items I've usually started with Bill at RCAlloys.com. They are very creative and have a lot of contacts which usually means you'll get your custom part cut (at a cost). Outstanding service and quality.

Some of their "custom" (one-off) parts I designed and had them do for my most insane project ended up becoming production parts for brand-name suppliers because of the results. --All in the name of the people in the hobby, I say... http://www.rcalloys.com/

Trick, I understand the cost that RCCA pays out to host this event. Trick what I want to know is there any guarentees that say if you win an event you get 3 pages in the mag. This would greatly help out for those who are looking for sponsers to fly them and an expensive land rocket to cali.